PHP session lifetime problem

Question

I\'m using PHP5 here. I have made a login system that check\'s the username and password against the records in the database. I want to use sessions to store the logged valu

Answer 1

You can change the configuration setting session.cookie_lifetime, e.g. in php.ini or a .htaccess file:

session.cookie_lifetime specifies the lifetime of the cookie in seconds which is sent to the browser. The value 0 means "until the browser is closed." Defaults to 0.

This means (I think) that you can't have both expiry based on a timeout and expiry when the browser is closed. So maybe the best bet is to keep the default and set your own timer in $_SESSION as others have suggested, thus rendering this answer pointless.